Forth then with huge pathetic force ...

Straight to the utmost crown of night he flew.The nothingness was a nakedness, a point

Beyond which thought could not progress as thought.He had to choose. But it was not a choiceBetween excluding things. It was not a choice

Between, but of. He chose to include the thingsThat in each other are included, the whole,The complicate, the amassing harmony.

– Wallace Stevens (Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction)

To study the way of enlightenment ...

study the self. To study the self, forget the self. Forgetting the self means being confirmed by the whole universe, by all beings. Being confirmed by all beings, you will drop off body and mind — your own, and those of others. No traces of enlightenment will remain, and yet those traces will continue on and on.

Trump’s Bad Behavior Is Not a Fiendish Plot — It’s Just the Illness He’s Suffering From

It is very hard indeed to follow all of our great, great
President's blunders and outrages and remember them.

Some people think he is deliberately acting so badly in
order to confuse us into not noticing his actions. I don't think so; I think he
is acting this way because he simply can't do anything else. He is that damaged
a human being. Call his mental condition what you will, the 25th Amendment is the cure, at least for the country.

We are not forgetting his behavior. We are just dead tired
of commenting on it, and just waiting for the day that responsible people in
Washington get onto the job of exercising the impeachment process or the 25th
Amendment.